Wednesday, January 09, 2008

A great new little gadget

When you're married to a geek, you get a lot of fun gadgets for Christmas, birthdays and anniversaries. I never have to research what to get, install and implement. I have a living CIO in the house. Very practical.

This year Santa, hrm, the Husband gave me a new video camera. I have long complained about the lack of a good way to shoot video images (we have still images well covered in this house). The Sony video camera we got before our wedding was considered small and handy then, now it's monstrous and requires tapes...

But now I have motion pictures well covered too! This is my new little gadget - a Xacti (Sanyo Xacti VPC-HD1a)!

It has a 10x optical zoom and record both 720-pixel high-definition video and snap 5.1-megapixel digital still images. And it slips easily in my camera bag! Hopefully now I will be able to take more moving pictures from California for the blog.

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This is where I grew up. 8506 km from California. Europe's fourth largest country in size, but tiny in population. Only 9 million of us. Meeting a Swede should probably be considered being unique! A part of my heart will always be here.